A Design Thinking – Based Strategy for Enhancing EFL Students’ Writing Performance and their Sustainability Awareness | ||
المجلة التربوية لکلية التربية بسوهاج | ||
Article 13, Volume 80, Issue 80, December 2020, Pages 15-42 PDF (830.97 K) | ||
Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
DOI: 10.21608/edusohag.2020.120172 | ||
Author | ||
Samah Mohammed Fahim El Sakka* | ||
Associate Professor At Curriculum, Instruction And Educational Technology Department, Faculty Of Education, Suez University | ||
Abstract | ||
A suggested design thinking-based strategy is proposed to develop the writing performance and sustainability awareness of EFL University students. This is a one group pre/post quasi-experimental study. Thirty 4th year students at Suez University majored in TEFL participated in the study. They were taught writing using a suggested strategy based on the design thinking approach. A pre and a post writing performance tests as well as a sustainability awareness scale were devised by the researcher to measure participants’ writing performance and their sustainability awareness before and after the study. Dependent samples t-test yielded a significant difference in the participants’ mean scores between the pre and the post tests of writing performance in favor of the post test. Additionally, a difference that is significant in the participants’ mean scores of the pre and post sustainability awareness scale was found using paired samples t-test. It was concluded that the proposed strategy that is based on design thinking approach had significantly enhanced the participants’ writing performance and raised their sustainability awareness. | ||
Keywords | ||
A Design thinking- based strategy; writing performance; sustainability awareness; EFL university students | ||
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